thrilled - Story 150503 | Emotion Vectors in Gemma4-31B

The familiar sound of the loose latch. Oh, the joy! This time, it was a tiny dachshund named Waffles. He was a master escape artist.

She sprinted towards the commotion, her ponytail bouncing. She grabbed her phone to film the entire escape.

"Waffles! You sneaky little sausage!" she exclaimed, her voice filled with amusement. Her heart soared.

She captured the little dog sniffing around the roses, before he saw her and started running. "Come on, buddy!" she said, chasing him with unbridled glee.

Emotion: thrilled

Cluster: Positive / Joy

PC1 (Valence): 3.31 Positive

PC2 (Disposition): 0.07

Role in Research

This story is one of 1,000 stories generated for the emotion thrilled. During extraction, it was fed through Gemma4-31B and its hidden state activations were captured at 11 layers.

The mean activation across all 1,000 thrilled stories, after denoising with neutral dialogue baselines, produces the thrilled emotion vector -- a direction in the model's 5,376-dimensional representation space.

Logit Lens (Layer 40)

Tokens promoted/suppressed when the thrilled vector is projected through the unembedding matrix.

Promoted:

`de`	0.613
`!`	0.544
`B`	0.508
`🤩`	0.499
`🎉`	0.457

Suppressed:

`S`	-0.601
`😞`	-0.536
`ness`	-0.462
`😥`	-0.351
`😔`	-0.341